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Federated Learning (FL) offers a distributed framework to train a global control model across multiple base stations without compromising the privacy of their local network data. This makes it ideal for applications like wireless traffic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Zifan Zhang , Minghong Fang , Jiayuan Huang , Yuchen Liu

Federated learning (FL) goes beyond traditional, centralized machine learning by distributing model training among a large collection of edge clients. These clients cooperatively train a global, e.g., cloud-hosted, model without disclosing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Gabriele Costa , Fabio Pinelli , Simone Soderi , Gabriele Tolomei

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm designed to address privacy concerns. However, FL is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where Byzantine clients compromise the integrity of the global model by submitting malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ryan McGaughey , Jesus Martinez del Rincon , Ihsen Alouani

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning technique that enables individual clients (e.g., user participants, edge devices, or organizations) to train a model on their local data in a secure environment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Waris Gill , Ali Anwar , Muhammad Ali Gulzar

Due to the greatly improved capabilities of devices, massive data, and increasing concern about data privacy, Federated Learning (FL) has been increasingly considered for applications to wireless communication networks (WCNs). Wireless FL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yichen Wan , Youyang Qu , Wei Ni , Yong Xiang , Longxiang Gao , Ekram Hossain

Federated learning is vulnerable to various attacks, such as model poisoning and backdoor attacks, even if some existing defense strategies are used. To address this challenge, we propose an attack-adaptive aggregation strategy to defend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Ching Pui Wan , Qifeng Chen

Federated learning is a prominent framework that enables clients (e.g., mobile devices or organizations) to train a collaboratively global model under a central server's orchestration while keeping local training datasets' privacy. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Farnaz Tahmasebian , Jian Lou , Li Xiong

Federated Learning (FL) can be vulnerable to attacks, such as model poisoning, where adversaries send malicious local weights to compromise the global model. Federated Unlearning (FU) is emerging as a solution to address such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Nicolò Romandini , Cristian Borcea , Rebecca Montanari , Luca Foschini

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm designed for privacy-sensitive applications that run on resource-constrained devices with non-Identically and Independently Distributed (IID) data. Traditional FL frameworks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Omid Tavallaie , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Suranga Seneviratne , Aruna Seneviratne , Albert Y. Zomaya

Federated learning (FL) allows participants to jointly train a machine learning model without sharing their private data with others. However, FL is vulnerable to poisoning attacks such as backdoor attacks. Consequently, a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Kavita Kumari , Phillip Rieger , Hossein Fereidooni , Murtuza Jadliwala , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Current defense mechanisms against model poisoning attacks in federated learning (FL) systems have proven effective up to a certain threshold of malicious clients. In this work, we introduce FLANDERS, a novel pre-aggregation filter for FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Edoardo Gabrielli , Dimitri Belli , Zoe Matrullo , Vittorio Miori , Gabriele Tolomei

Recent attacks on federated learning (FL) can introduce malicious model updates that circumvent widely adopted Euclidean distance-based detection methods. This paper proposes a novel defense strategy, referred to as LayerCAM-AE, designed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jingjing Zheng , Xin Yuan , Kai Li , Wei Ni , Eduardo Tovar , Jon Crowcroft

Federated learning (FL) provides autonomy and privacy by design to participating peers, who cooperatively build a machine learning (ML) model while keeping their private data in their devices. However, that same autonomy opens the door for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Najeeb Moharram Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

This paper proposes and investigates a new approach for detecting and preventing several different types of poisoning attacks from affecting a centralized Federated Learning model via average accuracy deviation detection (AADD). By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Viktor Valadi , Madeleine Englund , Mark Spanier , Austin O'brien

Wireless ad hoc federated learning (WAFL) is a fully decentralized collaborative machine learning framework organized by opportunistically encountered mobile nodes. Compared to conventional federated learning, WAFL performs model training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Naoya Tezuka , Hideya Ochiai , Yuwei Sun , Hiroshi Esaki

Recent studies have shown that federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to poisoning attacks that inject a backdoor into the global model. These attacks are effective even when performed by a single client, and undetectable by most existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Sebastien Andreina , Giorgia Azzurra Marson , Helen Möllering , Ghassan Karame

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where adversaries corrupt the global aggregation results and cause denial-of-service (DoS). Unlike recent model poisoning attacks that optimize the amplitude of malicious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Hangtao Zhang , Zeming Yao , Leo Yu Zhang , Shengshan Hu , Chao Chen , Alan Liew , Zhetao Li

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that enables training models on decentralized data. The field of FL security against poisoning attacks is plagued with confusion due to the proliferation of research that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hamid Mozaffari , Sunav Choudhary , Amir Houmansadr

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning technique that facilitates collaboration among participants across demographics. FL enables model sharing, while restricting the movement of data. Since FL provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Harsh Kasyap , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Carsten Maple , Somanath Tripathy

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates decentralized machine learning model training, preserving data privacy, lowering communication costs, and boosting model performance through diversified data sources. Yet, FL faces vulnerabilities such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Torsten Krauß , Alexandra Dmitrienko